a majority of books and writing translated from persian literature include persian proverbs among which wisdom and advice are of high importance. these books, as we know, are translated pieces of advice and wisdom from persian and are known as “books of advice”. this paper aims at showing that these books are among the basic principles of persian literature.  having studied historical and liter...

In 2015, Delaware made several important changes to its laws concerning merger litigation. These changes, which were made in response to a perception that levels of merger litigation were too high and that a substantial proportion of merger cases were not providing value, raised the bar, making it more difficult for plaintiffs to win a lawsuit challenging a merger and more difficult for plainti...

abstract background and objective: often, discharge of children against medical advice has a negative effect on the well-being of the patient. to determine the prevalence of discharge against medical advice (dama) among hospitalized children and examine the reasons given by parents/guardians for such discharges. methods: a retrospective 2-year medical records audit of children aged one day to 1...

This paper aims at checking the cross-cultural validity of well-know findings concerning the way people integrate communicated information. In a first experiment, a Japanese and a French population weighted the advices they were given in similar ways. In a second experiment, both populations showed some evidence of bias towards their own answer relative to an advice. In both experiments, partic...

The ability of 3- and 4-year-old children to disregard advice from an overtly misleading informant was investigated across five studies (total n = 212). Previous studies have documented limitations in young children's ability to reject misleading advice. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that these limitations are primarily due to an inability to reject specific directions that are...

The popularization of higher education largely impacts the balance of the supply and demand of the China higher education market. Starting from the basic concepts of the supply and demand of higher education, the actuality and influencing factors of the supply and demand in China higher education market are analyzed in this article, and corresponding advices and strategies about the sustainable...

Everyone may think she knows what is good and what is bad. One more theoretical article will hardly make anyone act differently. My goal here is to share simple recipes that are easy and often fun to put in practice and that make a big difference in one’s life. I am writing this note as an opportunity to share my most important snippets of advices with my students and younger collaborators at E...

Acknowledgements First and foremost I wish to thank PD Dr. Mark Hübener for being such a great, caring and helpful supervisor. Besides creating a wonderful working atmosphere, he, even in the most stressful situations, always took the time to listen and help, to give advice and to thoroughly discuss scientific and personal issues. I continuously felt warmly and cheerfully guided and at the same...